This paper deals with consumption dynamics and its effects on poverty. An econometric model is proposed in which … changes in poverty. Second, it allows distinguishing between chronic and transient poverty, by defining as chronically poor … those households whose level of consumption sustainable in the long term lies below the poverty line. This definition of …

national antipoverty scheme directed at chronic rural poverty, and PROCAMPO, which is a scheme designed to compensate farmers …

determining migration outcomes. This study utilizes experimental data on PROGRESA, Mexico's primary poverty reduction program, to …

incidence of poverty. Nationally, the incidence of poverty among individuals has fallen from 50.3 to 45.8 percent over this … period. Most poverty is concentrated in the rural sector (with an incidence of 67.8 percent) and in particular in the Central … that the reduction of rural poverty has not been greater. Further, this apparent slow, but stable decline in overall …